2017 PASSHE Virtual Conference
Virtual Conference: Transforming the Teaching and Learning Environment
The 2017 PASSHE (Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education) virtual conference "Transforming the Teaching & Learning Environment" starts on Monday, February 13. Each weekday through February 24th there will be 6 sessions, 3 in the morning and 3 in the afternoon. There are no concurrent sessions, which allows a participant to attend all 60 sessions if they want. Sessions cover topics such as online education, best practices, copyright, accessibility, mobile technologies, organizational issues, assessments, and many others.
Educational Technology Services has purchased an institutional registration so that faculty and staff who are interested may participate in any or all of the sessions at no cost to individual faculty or departments.
The up-to-date schedule for all the sessions can be found on the “2017 Sessions by Date” page on the website. To the left of each session title it will say “Join Session”. Just click on that link to join the session.
- Each weekday during the two weeks of the conference, sessions will be at 9am, 10am, 11am, 1pm, 2pm, and 3pm Eastern Time. There are no concurrent sessions.
- The conference will use Blackboard Collaborate to deliver the sessions. Instructions for using Collaborate are available on the conference website.
- When joining a conference session, you will be asked to enter your name. Please enter your first and last name plus your school affiliation.
- Example: Joe Smith – UNA
- Example: Jane Smith, UNA
- If you would like to see examples of the sessions, the 2016 Conference archives are available from the conference site.